Senior Research Metallurgist

The Senior Research Metallurgist provides technical expertise in broad areas of materials and processes in support of all areas of the company. He/she initiates and conducts new material, process, and product development; works directly with customers and potential customers to resolve technical problems; and assumes leadership of R&D during the absence of the R&D Manager.

Essential Functions

Become a technical expert and thought leader
- Initiate and conduct new product development, especially in the areas of new alloy formulation, materials processing, and innovative use of all company’s expertise and capabilities
- Maintain working knowledge of technological developments in both new and existing markets, and keep upper management aware of potential impact of these changes
- Support new product development activities of others within the company
Provide support within our company and to our customers
- Provide metallurgical support to resolve day-to-day manufacturing problems with emphasis on deformation processing of materials
- Provide technical support and training to the Sales and Marketing departments
- Work directly with current and prospective customers to select appropriate products, or develop novel solutions if needed

Additional Responsibilities

Form relationships with customer, industry, and academic thought leaders
Produce high-quality, high-impact technical communications
- Prepare well written, professional reports, whitepapers, and publication-quality manuscripts
- Document new test methods to support improved product quality/ reliability
- Produce detailed failure analyses for the Company, current, and prospective customers
Track and report on the status of developmental and support projects
Perform critical economic analysis of the value of new technologies and equipment
Benchmark competitive products and technologies
Supervise activities of member(s) of the R&D Technician Team

Metallurgical Quality Engineer

Position Summary:

The Quality Engineer will provide leadership on market specific quality systems requirements. For the assigned market, they will ensure our business processes and systems meet the market/industry expectations for compliance, responsiveness, and integrity. This role will serve as the segment’s lead quality resource supporting sales, process engineering, and the shop as it relates to interpreting customer/industry specifications, ensuring individual order compliance, aligning functional procedures for compliance, and coordinating internal resources for implementing process improvements to ensure segment quality expectations.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Coordinate segment specific QMS activities with customers and governing bodies regarding our quality system. Coordinate change management of quality system activities, assuring the system meet requirements and procedures, processes and systems should add value and contribute to Company’s Quality.

Must read and interpret complex specifications and contracts from multiple industries and serve as one of the key authority resources to the interpretation of specifications and be willing to provide written and verbal guidance to regulators, customers, and industry groups.

Support auditing program by performing duties of lead auditor for both internal and supplier audits. Additionally, this resource will host/witness 2nd and 3rd party external audits and customer witnesses and their review of Company’s Quality System processes.

Represent Company when communicating with customers’ sales, quality and technical resources regarding specification/requirements, manufacturing and process capabilities, and questions/complaints related to quality systems, product, processes, or documentation.

Lead and / or work with a cross functional team to identify root cause and develop and implement positive corrective action(s) to correct identified problem(s). Use, train, facilitate and coach teams in the proper use of structured problem-solving tools.

Communicate and provide training to personnel regarding execution of procedures and interpretation of specifications/drawings as they apply to the technical manufacturing, test and inspection requirements invoked by customers.

Facilitates between different process owners in multiple locations to maximizes standardization and clarity of practice. By thorough understanding of the business and manufacturing processes, the segment quality engineer will reduce redundancy in processes and procedures.

Utilize metrics to evaluate and eliminate waste for implemented processes, including efficiency, accuracy, and quality improvements. Support and participate 6’s / Lean activities.

Provide leadership culture on production floor to enable the teams to fully understand their quality impact on our customers, our employee owned business, and their individual work groups. Train, support, and audit assigned areas ensuring education and compliance to all appropriate customer and industry requirements

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

BS in engineering or metallurgy or equivalent

Minimum 5 years of experience as a quality resource in a high specification environment (Military, Nuclear, Aerospace, FDA, ETC)

Good understanding of lean/sigma tools

Previous experience in the metals industry and/or metallurgy knowledge.

Project Management Skills

Qualified Lead auditor in systems such as ISO 9001:2008, AS9100.

Metallurgist

November 6, 2020/in METALLURGIST Metallurgist /by Michael Heineman

In an exciting and challenging startup environment, the Metallurgist provides technical support to the Sales Department and customers for all phases of steel operations, supports Operations, to ensure good quality procedures are in place, oversees trials of new materials and processes to ensure good quality practices are being utilized, and provides metallurgical support to management personnel.

Responsibilities:

Work to improve process and product to meet customer requirements.

Provide technical support for all phases of steel operations including melting, teeming and annealing steel ingots.

Ensure that Operations follows sound metallurgical practices.

Oversees the investigation and disposition of non-conforming material.

Perform failure investigations on customer returns/claims.

Instruct the Sales department by providing technical guidance and creation/revision of grades to meet customer needs.

Provide Quality training for employees.

Technical Service Metallurgist

October 12, 2020/in METALLURGIST Metallurgist /by Michael Heineman

Basic Job Functions:

The role of the Technical Service Metallurgist includes, but is not limited to the following:

Coordinate customer support as well as development and qualification trials with operating and technical personnel
Provide field support for sheet customers, including claims resolution, cost savings ideas, on-site trial support, on-site problem solving
Provide customer feedback, customer requirements, and corrective action guidance to mill-based commercial, technical and operations personnel
This position requires extensive travel, domestic and international.

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Minimum Qualifications:

Must have metallurgical knowledge and experience with steel products
Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, or equivalent steel production experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with cold rolled and galvanized products and customers
Experience as a mill metallurgist
Experience with customer support, both internally and externally

Process Metallurgist

May 15, 2020/in METALLURGIST Metallurgist /by Michael Heineman

To maintain and establish standard operating procedures.

To investigate production and quality problems and make recommendations for correction actions.

To verify product reliability.

To make recommendations for developed or new technology.

Qualifications:

BS in Metallurgy or Materials Engineering

Understanding of steel manufacturing used in the melting, casting of molten steel or rolling, surface treatment practices.

Product Metallurgist-Investment Casting

March 26, 2020/in METALLURGIST Metallurgist /by Michael Heineman

Performs actions defined by customers to complete component manufacturing documentation and obtain customer approvals, as required, to qualify as a source for production of specific products. Interfaces with customer technical personnel in the definition of the most producible and cost-effective component to accomplish customer requirements.

Investigates and initiates corrective action on manufacturing problems arising in the manufacture of products and in manufacturing problems associated with the inspection and testing of products.

Establishes operating equipment specifications, improves manufacturing techniques and introduces new process equipment to production. Interfaces with design personnel to ensure that processes and designs are compatible.

Reviews and evaluates engineering changes and/or other specification requirements and performs technical liaison function with production planning and engineering personnel.

Recommends alterations to development and design to improve quality of products and/or procedures.

Prepares engineering schematics and parts lists for system components to facilitate manufacturing planning.

Provides advisory support in the analysis and evaluation of production practices from the standpoint of work simplification, value analysis, workstations and methods analysis. Compiles and evaluates test and production data, prepares technical analysis, recommends production methods and processes required to meet design objectives on new or improved products and/or processes. Conducts analysis of method and time standards.

May lead specific and targeted product and/or process improvement efforts.

Assignments typically will include design and development, materials testing, preparation of specifications, process study, report preparation, and other activities requiring knowledge of principles and techniques commonly employed in the specific area of assignments.

Bachelor’s Degree in engineering.

2-7 years or equivalent knowledge / experience in investment casting.

Familiar with a variety of concepts within the field.

Must possess good communication and organizational skills.

Computer literacy is a must, including competency in general MS Office applications, technical computer modeling (SolidWorks) and statistical tools.

Senior Research Metallurgist

Essential Functions

Additional Responsibilities

Metallurgical Quality Engineer

Metallurgist

Technical Service Metallurgist

Process Metallurgist

Product Metallurgist-Investment Casting

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